John Grierson Movies

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...

Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.

Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine in Scotland falls victim...

Seeking her long lost uncle, Ada Shore arrives at Skerryvore University to find him working under another name as the Gate Keeper. Ada is mistaken by...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still...

The history of Scotland and the factors that have shaped the character of its people.

Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a...

Filmed in Uganda, Man of Africa was assembled by legendary documentary producer John Grierson. The film depicts the mass migration of the Bakija and...

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

Short documentary about British education in the late 1930s.

A silent film by John Grierson. It tells the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery.

Humphrey Jennings' first film as a director, a brief overview of the British postal service.

A look at the work of Glasgow's Medical Officer of Health.

Short documentary showing the workings of a large London sorting office.